Konrad Lorenz, 1903-1989

Konrad Lorenz

Born on 7 November 1903, Lorenz was the second and last child of Emma Lorenz and Dr. Adolf Lorenz, a distinguished and wealthy orthopedic surgeon. Growing up in comfortable surroundings at the family home in the village of Altenberg, on the outskirts of Vienna, the young Lorenz was allowed to pursue his enthusiasms as an animal lover. His interest in animals and evolution as an adolescent led h...

George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)

George Wells Beadle [3] studied corn, fruit flies, and funguses in the US during the twentieth century. These studies helped Beadle earn the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [4]. Beadle shared the prize with Edward Tatum for their discovery that genes [5] help regulate chemical processes in and between cells. This finding, initially termed the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, helped sc...

The early theoretical development of Konrad Lorenz

The present study discusses the early theoretical development of Konrad Lorenz in the period from 1930 to 1937. In this period Lorenz developed his position on instinct in the first place, and thus his theoretical views were subject to change. Despite this change, the paper points to relatively stable features of Lorenz’s approach, which emerged relatively soon in his scientific career and guid...

Konrad Lorenz. The man and his ideas

JOHN Z. BOWERS and ELIZABETH F. PURCELL (editors), Advances in American medicine: essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols., New York, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 918, illus., $25.00. For these excellent commemoratory volumes the editors have gathered together nineteen solicited essays by distinguished medical men, all but two being American. Each is a comprehensive survey of th...

George Wells Beadle - 23 October 1903--9 June 1989.